Edwardiella Henssen (1986)

Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. Data set not revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 1. Edwardiella. Lichinaceae Nyl. (1854); Lichinales.

Type Information: Type: Edwardiella mirabilis Henssen.

Taxonomic Literature: Henssen A., Lichenologist 18: 51-56 (1986).

Ecology: Biotroph; lichenized; substrate non-calciferous.

Lichen Photobionts: Primary photobiont present; cyanobacterial. Primary photobiont taxonomy: Gloeocapsa (A. Beck 19-05-97); Microcystaceae; Chroococcales, Cyanobacteria, Prokaryota. Secondary photobiont absent.

Thallus: Indistinct or crustose. Upper Surface: Special structures absent. Lower Surface: Attached by the whole lower surface; special structures absent.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Apothecioid, orbicular, forming all across the thallus surface, becoming adnate to soon sessile. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Periphyses: Absent. Interascal Hyphae: Present, distinctly branched, distinctly anastomosed. Hypothecium: White.

Ascospores: 1–2 to c. 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, broadly ellipsoid, or globose, 6-9.5 µm long, 4.5-6 µm wide, obtuse; septa absent; wall thin, not thickened at the septum, hyaline, in Lugol's Solution negative, wall not ornamented.

Conidiomata: Absent resp. not observed or present; pycnidial; formed all accross the thallus surface.

Conidia: Bacilliform.

Secondary Metabolites: Not detected.

(report generated 04.Okt.2007)